Project Grant 2307612
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences Project Grant, awarded on August 1, 2023 for $242,524, supports collaborative research by the University of Arizona aimed at exploring the composition of exoplanetary systems through observations and modeling of dusty circumstellar disks around other stars. The research goal is to determine the composition of rocky material orbiting other stars by analyzing the dust released from colliding rocks, which reflects and...
- This $489,830 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will support a program to measure the amount of dust in the halos surrounding 25 galaxies. The principal investigator will use deep imaging to detect the dimming of background light sources, which will provide an estimate of the circumgalactic dust distribution. This work aims to quantify the properties of this circumgalactic dust and...
- This $238,354 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) will fund collaborative research to develop improved image processing software for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets. The project aims to enable more sensitive detection and characterization of exoplanets by fully utilizing data from the wavefront sensors in modern high-contrast imaging systems. The software will...
- This $507,210 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports a coordinated experimental, theoretical, and observational study led by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to advance the understanding of complex carbon chemistry in interstellar space. The key objectives are to: 1) Identify new organic molecules and determine the chemical pathways that...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences Project Grant award of $449,288 will fund a 3-year research program at Columbia University to investigate variations in planet formation conditions. The research will utilize radio telescopes to analyze the structure and chemistry of protoplanetary disks around young stars, particularly in environments that have been less characterized. Specific objectives include comparing the chemical properties of disks undergoing late...
- This $462,120 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to analyze the chemical profiles of dwarf stars and their exoplanets. The primary objectives are to: (a) develop a public, data-driven tool to precisely derive stellar elemental abundances from spectroscopic data; (b) measure elemental abundances for high-priority exoplanet host stars; and (c) produce exoplanetary atmosphere models accounting...
- The Carnegie Institution of Washington was awarded a $423,584 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the funding will support collaborative research exploring galaxy growth in diverse cosmic environments at redshift Z~2.5 through Lyman-alpha tomography. The research is...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $385,047 Project Grant to the University of Illinois for the period of August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant, titled "Probing Circumstellar Disk Properties with Polarization," will use high-quality polarization observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study nearby circumstellar disks and advance astronomers' understanding of star and planet formation. The key...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $520,894 Project Grant to the University of Arizona under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop improved image processing software for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets. The project aims to leverage wavefront sensor data from adaptive optics systems to enhance exoplanet detection and characterization capabilities of existing ground-based telescopes. The investigators will...
- This Project Grant award of $237,593 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a collaborative astronomical research project between Georgia State University, Bridgewater State University, and Southern Connecticut State University. The project will conduct speckle imaging observations of approximately 5,000 nearby stars within 40 parsecs of the Sun, focusing on K and M dwarf stars. This will enable the researchers to study the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $503,884 Project Grant to the Carnegie Institution Of Washington, doing business as Carnegie Institution For Science, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The goal of this 3-year grant, awarded on August 1, 2023, is to determine the composition of rocky material orbiting other stars by observing and modeling the dust in circumstellar disks. The project will leverage the new MAGAO-X imaging system on the Magellan Telescope to observe the color of faintly reflected starlight from dust disks and interpret the data using models. This will provide insights into the relative amounts of elements like silicon, oxygen, ice, and carbon in the dust, which are proxies for the types of rocky bodies and planets that may exist in those exoplanetary systems. The research will involve collaboration between the prime grantee and a sub-awardee, the Space Science Institute, which will provide modeling support for simulating light scattering from irregularly shaped dust particles.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $503.9k | 7/3/23 |
GrantNumber | Description | Subgrantee | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
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02211071321S | Space Science Institute | Project Grant 2307612 | $128.3k | 8/1/23 |